count the contractors

[eek]

Given Beaker is looking at deserting us and Churchill has already done the dirty lets see who is a contractor and who is merely pretending or dreaming.

[MarillionFan]

Where's the poll?

[sasguru]

Where's the poll?

Contrcators nowadays, not as good as they used to be

[eek]

Where's the poll?

Ho ho ho.

[SimonMac]

Contract coming to an end but not looking to go permie

[MarillionFan]

I've had a couple of stints permie in the last 15 years but then again I've given up booze & hookers a few times as well before falling off the wagon.

[d000hg]

I selected "diehard" but a more accurate description would be "contractor until my plan B comes together".

[doodab]

I've turned down more permie offers than most permies will accept in their lifetime.

Not saying I never would, but none of them have been close to acceptable.

[Bacchus]

After a long spell working on plan B in 2009-10 the warchest started sounding a little hollow and so I went looking.

I was offered a contract on a rate lower than I had had for years, and a couple of permie jobs, one of which was as a consultant with a 100k package, but as far as I could see that would involve being on client sites, staying away from home, blah blah, lots of the hassle of contracting then having to justify my actions to a "boss", ask for "holiday", and have some tool "appraise" me every year. No freedom

six months on a crap rate and then back to proper rates for the last year with the last three gigs dovetailing finish/start. Current gig finishes in a couple of months, then a bit of early season sailing I think

Cut me in half and you will see the word contractor impregnated in my core like a stick of Brighton rock

Shame it's a dying market and the BRIC countries will take over the vast majority of it, it's been a good ride

[ThomasSoerensen]

I am a contractor and I am very hard.